Questar Fueling plans natural gas fueling station in San Antonio

Questar Fueling Co. will build a compressed natural gas fueling station in San Antonio that will be open to fleets and members of the public.

The station is expected to serve as many as 60 class-8 natural gas-powered trucks operated by Central Freight Lines – the anchor client for the project.

The fueling station will likely open this summer.

Central Freight Lines is expected to use more than 1 million diesel-gallon equivalents of natural gas per year. Most of its trucks will use a private time-fill facility in which 60 trucks can fill while parked. Other trucks will use a 6-lane, high-speed-fueling station with public access for anyone driving a natural gas vehicle.

“Our business is growing because the trucking industry is transitioning to CNG,” said Craig Wagstaff, executive vice president and COO of Questar Fueling, in a press release. “Companies like Central Freight Lines are leading the way by demonstrating their commitment to a cleaner environment and using America’s abundant supply of natural gas. In addition, other motorists in the San Antonio area will have public access to the new CNG station’s clean, low-cost fuel.”

Don Orr, president and CEO of Waco-based Central Freight, said in a release that this is the second of three CNG-fueling facilities it will have in Texas, and that its partnership with Questar give the company a convenient and reliable fuel source. “Fueling with natural gas is also helping us operate more efficiently, reduce pollution and become less dependent on foreign-oil imports as we support our home-state economy,” Orr said.

Questar Fueling designs, builds and operates CNG-stations for fleets. It is a subsidiary of Questar Corp.